HN needs categories
for each story in the titles so we can filter out what we do/dont care about... egEuclids compass [MATH]New version of python [PYTHON]Java is slow [JAVA]Bitcoin will fail [BITCOIN]
What you are describing is practical thinking.
Why would they advertise at times square when everyone in the world is already eye balling their website everyday?
Also marketing is only needed for things people dont really need or want. A good product sells itself by word of mouth.
Also this modification would change nothing .... everyone would still get all the feeds, only change is those who want to filter stuff out can! There is a huge volume of articles.. and I have other feeds and things to do... who are you to tell me I should NOT be able to filter things out?
My proposed change wouldnt effect you... what you are saying is effecting me.
for each story in the titles so we can filter out what we do/dont care about... egEuclids compass [MATH]New version of python [PYTHON]Java is slow [JAVA]Bitcoin will fail [BITCOIN]
I love the HN feed... but there are some topics Im not interested in at all, and seeing that it is a large feed with lots of content, I would like to filter out the stuff Im not interested in.Could we start a convention of putting [catergory] in the titles ?egCool new proof of Pythagoras theorem [MATH]Bitcoin is a fools game [BITCOIN]etcThis way everyone still gets the full feed and those who...